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Until recently, hepatitis C-which infects 170 million people throughout the world-was always fatal. But today there is finally a remarkable cure. Elizabeth Rains describes how she was likely infected with hepatitis C during her wild hippie days, how she was diagnosed more than four decades later, and how she became one of the early patients to be cured, including the obstacles she encountered in gaining access to the $100,000 drugs. She describes the symptoms-and non-symptoms-of hep c, the stigma that still accompanies a diagnosis, the grueling interferon treatments that many hep C patients have had to undergo, and the new antivirals that have exploded onto the pharmaceutical market and that provide a cure but at a tremendously high price. Because most people who have hepatitis C have no idea they harbor the disease, Rains' riveting account will compel readers to get tested for this silent killer.Product Identifiers
PublisherGreystone Books,Canada
ISBN-139781771641708
eBay Product ID (ePID)223182876
Product Key Features
SubjectMedicine
Publication Year2017
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameDemon in My Blood: My Fight with Hep C-And a Miracle Cure (Hepatitis C)
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorElizabeth Rains
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height215 mm
Item Width139 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureCanada
Title_AuthorElizabeth Rains
TopicMemorials, Popular Medicine, Coping with Illness